Wedgebuster

Huge loss, Coach W seemed like a huge mover of the needle at Northridge.

Always a difficult and awkward scenario. Some Admin teams seem to handle it flawlessly and other times it seem to get messy.

Does this make it harder to hire the next coach? You would think that S&C job is what a lot of football coaches would be interested in.

Games with names are undoubtedly the BEST!

Is there any precedence for a "this sport only" conference?

Is it travelling distance or is it schools trying to justify kids getting home so late at night for a JV tennis match on a Tuesday?

Wasn't Pike's Coach assigned something like "K-12 Physical Education and Athletic Development Coordinator"? Essentially like a "Math Coach" or "Writing Coach" position that you see at some schools. A former teacher who now instructs the teachers of the district how to teach those subjects more effectively.

What is the correct call here?

That's true that raises are negotiated but when I left Indiana teacher raises could only be negotiated from "New Money" and with the bulk of funding being linked to enrollment, effectively you had to be in a growing district to have a chance at a raise. Has that changed? What is the Teacher Appreciation Grant? Is this less than a few years old?

What is the coaching salary at a Mt. Vernon or New Pal like compared to Warren or BD? The formula for how teacher raises are tied to student enrolled is probably more important. If you're a teacher and not at the top of the pay scale, the only place to be is in a growing school district. How some of these young teacher coaches keep making it work at schools where enrollment is stagnant or heading in the wrong direction beats me. Imagine being hired in at $34K then being told that the only way to increase your salary is if enrollment increases and "New Funds" become available.

THIS! Grover hit it on the head. A private school that has 650 kids legitimately pulls athletes from that full number. Public of the same size often has 250 of those kids "eliminated" by socioeconomic reason, home life reason, general apathy, etc. Just an acknowledgement that we aren't comparing apples to apples here, and shouldn't be trying to would go a long way. How many "GREAT" Indiana football coaches made their names at private schools before moving on to a select public school job? How many times has it been done the other way around?

I would like to hear DT's ideas on just how a school could make this "decision". I've read enough of his thoughts on the general investment that schools must make in football to be winners year in and year out. I would love to hear some of our thoughtful posters ideas on just how this "decision" can be "made" by a school system.

Do you agree with that logic TigerFan?

My question is why is it that way? If two teams have the same record and one won the head to head match-up, what's the argument for having co-champs? That the loser of the head to head beat another team that beat the team that beat them?

Am I correct in thinking that for some reason head to head doesn't matter in conference title races? 6-1 is 6-1 even if you won the head to head match up? If that is the case, is that the way that is SHOULD be? Lets hear some arguments on either side.

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I would think that many an Indiana HS would really like that coaching record leading their program, BUT....I do appreciate you trying to drive conversation. I just don't see it happening with Coach Barron. Will he move on from Plymouth? Definitely has the resume to go and get a job. Where would he be a good fit?

The idea that a coach would be on the "hot seat" after playing a very good New Prairie team to a 1 TD game in the Sectional Championship game, THE YEAR BEFORE! is somewhat ridiculous to me.

I'm up here in Michigan with all of our own "interesting" ways of dealing with this virus. Can someone tell me what the definition of a "Covid Contact" is in athletics. The line from the governor's office up here is that in regular everyday life its "15 minutes of being within 6 feet or less". Well that literally never happens in a football game, even if you add up all the time of O and D-line contact in a game its not 15 minutes. Yet your seeing entire programs shutdown over 1-2 cases. Contact tracing......I get it, but what is their metric for a "contact"?

Did anyone see Ohio's plan of shuffling sports seasons around to play the sports with more built in "social distance" first? Fall: Boys and Girls Tennis, Boys and Girls Golf, Softball, Baseball, Boys and Girls Track, Winter: Normal Spring: Football (start season March 1, regular season begins March 22, Playoffs start in lat May) Soccer An out of the box plan, but I would take it to be able to let all the kids play!

Well lets just use that logic then. You pay people that you can't readily develop........in this case special defensive athletes.

As a general rule, I say DUDES play defense. Pure Athleticism rules the day on that side of the ball (Not that disciplined play and technique can't raise a players ceiling considerably). Offense is about execution, you can get away with lesser athletes on the OL with good coaching. Look at all the mid-round guys that the New England Patriots have played with on the OL over the last 20 years.

Interesting article I've always had this thought, but until reading that article it had always just been anecdotal. Seen it happen many times on turf, personally experience in college (had a defensive player thrown into my legs while engaged in a block, foot stuck, knee gave) Related question for the Forum......how many of your team's O-Lineman wear some sort of knee brace and who supplies that for them?

Has anyone noticed any higher occurrence in knee or ankle injuries on turf? Seems to me I've seen more players get their foot "stuck" in the turf (combination of great cleats and a great playing surface) and the first thing to give is their knee or ankle.

We adopted the stretch of main roadway that leads into our town. Michigan Highway Sign lets everyone know that our Football team cleans that stretch of roadway. We cleaned all the weeds and small trees that were growing under our stadium bleachers, weeded and edged the landscaping around our school, etc. Didn't take long to do, trying to get the kids to develop some pride in where they are from.